OWNEESHIP OF TENANT FARMS EN THE UNITED STATES 
37 
operated farms owned by such landlords follows. In Xorth Central 
States 10 per cent of the renter and manager-operated farms were 
owned bv landlords who were owner farmers in the same county: 
in the South Atlantic States, 27 per cent: in the east South Central 
States, 26 per cent: in the west South Central States, 19 per cent, 
and in California, 6 per cent. Table 23 gives the corresponding 
percentages by counties. 
Table 23. — Percentage of farm landlords who operated farms they owned in counties 
in which they rented farm land to tenants with the -percentage of renter, cropper, 
or manager-operated farms owned by them, 1920 
State and county 
Percentage of — 
State and count y 
1 
Percentage of— 
Renter, 
cropper, 
Land- and 
lords j manager 
farms 
1 owned 
Renter, 
cropper, 
Land- ; and 
lords manager 
: farms 
owned 
Per cent Per cent 
12 * T> 
Kentuckv, Daviess.-. 
Per cent 
31 
22 
40 
30 
29 
40 
42 
28 
18 
18 
24 
Per cent 
33 
9 
5 
8 
11 
5 
Q 
Kentucky, Fayette . 
27 
Illinois, De Kalb 
Kentuckv, Franklin.. . 
45 
Kentucky, Henderson 
31 
7 » 
34 
11 
9 
12 
10 
5 
7 
10 
9 
13 
15 
14 
11 
36 
27 
38 
21 
32 
24 
22 
27 
37 
46 
31 
42 
Kentuckv, Shelbv .. 
42 
s 
33 
Iowa, Blackhawk j 6 
28 
17 
8 
37 
13 
12 
12 
10 
34 
24 
34 
18 
26 
23 
17 
23 
33 
42 
Mississippi, Bolivar. . _. 
14 
14 
Mississippi, Coahoma. _ . 20 
18 
Kansas, Reno 
14 
12 
28 
10 
17 
17 
16 
16 
21 
23 
Mississippi, Sunflower 
18 
Xorth Carolina, Caswell 
North Carolina, Scotland 
Georgia, Barrow.. . . 
31 
Oklahoma, Kiowa 
Oklahoma, Marshall 
Texas, Bell. 
11 
18 
Georgia, Clark 
19 
Texas, Ellis - 
18 
Texas, Hill 
18 
24 
Georgia, Taliferro. 
4 
4 
Kentucky, Bourbon 
California, Madera 6 
8 
15 
Kentucky, Clark 
28 
HOW OWNERSHIP WAS ACQUIRED 
Among the questions asked of owners of rented farms were the 
following : 
Of the land to which you held title on January 1, 1920, how many acres had 
been acquired by you in each of the following ways: (a) by homesteading , 
(b) by marriage , (c) by inheritance or gift, (d) by purchase, trade, or 
foreclosure . n 
11 Usable answers to the questions on the method of acquisition were returned by 23,963 owners of rented 
farms. These persons reported the ownership of a total of 8,122, 82S acres of land. The replies pertain to 
all land to which title was held Jan. 1, 1920, and consequently do not have to do with rented acreages 
exclusively but include also lands operated by the owner and lands not farmed at all. On the other hand, 
the replies do not include acreages in which the corresponding landlords had a part interest, such acreages, 
for instance, as are in undivided estates. 
There is some reason to believe that a part of the land reported as homesteaded was in reality acquired by 
marriage or inheritance, being what the owners regarded as the family's old homestead. Where the wife and 
husband both owned land, it is probable that in some cases the land' held by each was reported on separate 
schedules. Some of the land reported as having been obtained by marriage was probably acquired out of 
the joint savings of husband and wife while both were living, reverting to the survivor on the death of one 
of the parties, but having really been acquired by purchase. The replies do not reveal the value of the 
acreage held or the extent to which it was mortgaged either on Jan. 1, 1920, or at the time of acquisition. 
Neither do they reveal the extent to which the assets used to acquire land by purchase were acqured by 
inheritance or gift or by the sale of lands which had been acquired in ways other than by purchase. 
